Sentence examples for a mild affair from inspiring English sources
Before Sept. 11, anti-Americanism in Europe was a mild affair and a key part of the love-hate relationship between the French and the Americans.
Admittedly last year did feature some scandal, but this was a mild affair that centred on the hurling of a ruined Baked Alaska and accusations that the ill-fated pudding had been sabotaged.
Played in the Eighteen Seventies as an outdoor version of racquets and court tennis, the game was a mild affair, as is proved by the fact that Wimbledon, where it was first welcomed as a sporting event, was the home of the All England Croquet Club, and the first triumph of the new tennis was to displace croquet in public favor.
This week, Le Monde, noting that Europeans see Americans as "arrogant, bellicose and deaf to all criticism", decried a new period of American "messianism .British anti-Americanism is a milder affair, though Mr Blair's claim that he exercises a restraining influence on Mr Bush is seen by many in his own party as a self-flattering illusion.
BY AMERICAN standards, German culture wars are mild affairs.
Unlike the motor show though - which was also one of the BBC's greatest selling exports, Great British Bake Off, which will run on BBC1 until October, is a kind affair with only a mild sense of jeopardy from the constant threat of baking elimination.
In domestic affairs, Godoy supported a mild version of the enlightened reformism of his predecessors; like them, however, he failed to find a satisfactory place for Spain in the Europe of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1800 15).
Only a mild exaggeration.
